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The Weeknd hits new Spotify milestone of 100m monthly listeners

We called this one in January! The Weeknd has become the first artist to have more than 100 million listeners on Spotify.
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Bandzoogle hits $100m music, merch and ticket sales milestone

More than half of that $100m has been generated in the last five years, while 75% of the total has come from merchandise.
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Roxi now has 1m users… and Simon Cowell as a curator

British music streaming service Roxi has signed up another starry playlist curator, and announced its first user figures.
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TuneCore reaches a new milestone: $3bn of DIY-artist earnings

Believe has announced that its distribution subsidiary TuneCore has now reached the milestone of $3bn of artist earnings, having hit the $2.5bn mark in April this year.
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Music licensing startup Uppbeat reaches 1m users milestone

Startup Uppbeat emerged early in 2021 as a music licensing service for YouTubers, with a catalogue of 900 cleared tracks and a freemium business model.
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YouTube now has 80m paid Music and Premium subscribers

It's more than a year since YouTube announced that it had 50 million paid subscribers for YouTube Music and YouTube Premium.
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Instagram now has more than 2bn monthly active users

Something we missed in our report on Meta’s latest financial results yesterday: CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed a new milestone stat for its Instagram service.
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Apple Music has 100m songs, says ‘human curation is more important than ever’

Apple Music has announced a new milestone. No, not how many subscribers it has, but the number of tracks available on its service. It's 100m.
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Ed Sheeran is the first artist with 100m Spotify followers

Congratulations are due to Ed Sheeran. First for becoming the first artist to reach the milestone of 100 million followers on Spotify...
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TuneCore reaches new milestone of $2.5bn artist payouts

Distributor TuneCore has now paid out more than $2.5bn to artists in royalties since the company was founded in 2006.
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1 to the b(n): TikTok has more than 1bn monthly active users

If you don't know them, they're one to the bn, coming in hard, you better watch it, er, Instagram. Okay, that's enough TikTok viral rap references. The news is that the short-videos app has officially reached the milestone...
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Shazam has now tagged 1bn+ songs from the iOS Control Center

It’s a quirk of Apple’s music business that the company has announced more public stats for its Shazam music-recognition subsidiary in the last year than it has for its flagship streaming service. Last November, Shazam...